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Discovery
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| Discovered by | G. Strommer |
| Discovery site | Budapest |
| Discovery date | August 27, 1940 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 1537 |
| Named after | Transylvania |
| Alternate name(s) | 1940 QA |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 3.9682900 |
| Peri | 2.1199694 |
| Eccentricity | 0.3035877 |
| Orbital period | 1939.9616362 |
| Mean anomaly | 234.31311 |
| Inclination | 3.86098 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 230.28619 |
| Argument of peri | 148.05391 |
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Physical characteristics
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| Albedo | 0.1619 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.90 |
1537 Transylvania (1940 QA) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 27, 1940 by G. Strommer at Budapest.
It was a lost asteroid until L. K. Kristensen at Aarhus University rediscovered it along with 452 Hamiltonia along with numerous other small objects in 1981[1]
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